Donald Richie Movies

Fifteen years before Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Richie anticipated the animation of Terry Gilliam in this early 8mm film. He cut up Life...

Short film taking place in Vienna‘s Central Cemetery.

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members...

Richie captures the strange rhythm of sumo, where the wrestlers quietly and repeatedly face off—eye to eye—before smashing into each...

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.